Radeon RX 570 and Radeon HD 2900 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 570 vs Radeon HD 2900 XT
Radeon RX 570
7176
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
Radeon RX 570
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Polaris 20 Ellesmere
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1244 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1168 MHz
743 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,095 gflops
475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
320
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
215 Watt
Texture fill rate
159.2
11.89
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
1656 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
106.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
10.0 (10_0)
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
FreeSync
+
-